Orthodox Constructions of the West

Second International Conference of the Orthodoxy in America Lecture Series
Co-Sponsored by the Center for Medieval Studies, Fordham University
June 28-30, 2010, at the Rose Hill campus of Fordham University in the Bronx

Conference Program

Monday, June 28

9:00-10:00 Registration & Refreshment

10:00-10:15    Welcome (chaired by Aristotle Papanikolaou, Fordham University)

10:15-11:30    Keynote (chaired by George Demacopoulos, Fordham University)
                       Robert F. Taft, SJ (Pontifical Oriental Institute, Rome), Perceptions and Realities in Orthodox-
                       Catholic Relations Today: Reflections on the Past, Prospects for the Future

11:30-2:30 Extended Lunch (a list of local restaurants will be provided)

2:30-4:45 Symposium I: Byzantium and Beyond

2:30-3:00 Tia Kolbaba (Rutgers University), The Tenth Century: Orthodox Constructions of the West in the
Golden Age of Byzantium

3:00-3:30 Marcus Plested (Cambridge University, UK), “Light from the West”: Byzantine Readings of Aquinas

3:30-4:00 Norman Russell (London University, UK), From the “Shield of Orthodoxy” to the “Tome of Joy":
The Anti-Western Stance of Dositheos II of Jerusalem (1641-1707)

4:00-4:45 Combined Discussion

4:45-6:00 Reception

Tuesday, June 29

8:30-9:00 Coffee and Announcements

9:00-11:15 Symposium II: Russian Thinkers of the 19th and 20th Century

9:00-9:30         Vera Shevzov (Smith College), Orthodoxy and "the West" in Late Nineteenth- and Early
                        Twentieth-Century Russia

9:30-10:00       Antoine Arjakovsky (Institute of Ecumenical Studies, Ukrainian Catholic University, Ukraine), The
                        Russian Religious Thinkers in the 20th Century and the Rediscovery of the West

10:00-10:30 Paul Gavrilyuk (University of St. Thomas), The Case of "Westernization" vs. Hellenization:
the Methodological Limitations of Georges Florovsky's "Neopatristic Synthesis"

10:30-11:15     Combined Discussion

11:15-1:00       Lunch (a list of local restaurants will be provided)

1:00-2:15         Keynote
                        Sarah Coakley (Cambridge University, UK), Eastern ‘Mystical Theology’ or Western
                       ‘Nouvelle Théologie’: On the Comparative Reception of Ps-Dionysius in Lossky and de Lubac

2:15-2:45         Coffee Break

2:45-4:30        Symposium III: Greek Theologians of the 20th Century

2:45-3:15         Pantelis Kalaitzidis (Volos Theological Academy, Greece), The Image of the West in Contemporary
                        Greek Theology

3:15-3:45         Basilio Petrà (Academy Alfansiana, Italy), Christos Yannaras and the Idea of Dysis

3:45-4:30 Combined Discussion

4:30-5:30 Reception

Wednesday, June 30

8:30-9:00 Coffee and Announcements

9:00-11:15 Symposium IV: The Contemporary Political Considerations

9:00-9:30 Elizabeth Prodromou (Boston University), Shaking the Comfortable Conceits of "Otherness:"
Interpretive and Empirical Aspects of the "Orthodoxy-and-the-West" Formulation

9:30-10:00       Effie Fokas (London School of Economics, UK), Religion in the Greek Public Sphere:
                        Debating Europe's Influence

10:00-10:30     Lucian Turcescu (Concordia College), Eastern Orthodox Constructions of 'the West' in
                        the Post-Communist Political Discourse

10:30-11:15 Combined Discussion

11:15-1:00 Lunch (a list of local restaurants will be provided)

1:00-3:15 Symposium V: Theological Considerations

1:00-1:30 John Panteleimon Manoussakis (Holy Cross College), The Heresy of Anti-Papism

1:30-2:00 Radu Bordeianu (Duquesne University), (In)voluntary Ecumenism:
Dumitru Staniloae's Interaction with the West as Open Sobornicity

2:00-2:45 Combined Discussion

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